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‘Unique’ liver operation saves girl
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A 9-month-old girl with a fatal liver disease was saved by using part of her father’s liver in an operation that the hospital described as unique.
Renji hospital said this was the first living donor liver transplantation surgery involving a donor with visceral inversion anywhere in the world.
The father’s liver is opposite to that of most people in that it grows on the left side of his body,
The surgery was conducted on March 9 and the father was discharged on Monday. His daughter has left the intensive care unit and is in an ordinary ward. Doctors said her liver function was now stable.
Her father, a 38-year-old man surnamed Liu from Liaoning Province, consulted doctors in Shanghai after his daughter was diagnosed with congenital biliary atresia, a liver disease that is fatal unless a liver transplantation could be carried out, the hospital said.
Xia Qiang, director of the Liver Surgery Department at the hospital who led the surgery, said the father’s “visceral anomalies” — which only happen to one in every 10,000 people — posed great difficulties.
“The anatomical structure of a liver growing on the left side is very different from one normally growing on the right side, so we had to operate on him the entirely reverse way,” Xia said.
The surgery, which cut off the left lateral lobe of Liu’s liver, took less than two hours, and then it was successfully transplanted into his daughter.
Renji hospital, which has performed more than 800 liver transplantations for children since 2006, is one of the world’s leading hospital in this field.
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